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Kelso, Washington

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The city of Kelso is located on the Oregon border (on the Columbia River).

Kelso is located in Cowlitz County and is the county seat.

The community of Kelso is near sea level<1>.

Time Zone: Kelso lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Kelso can be found in:

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Kelso had a population of 11,895 people<3> (or 12.79% of the total population of Cowlitz County). The population of Kelso represented 0.2% of the total of Washington, making it the state's 58th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Kelso had a population of 12,188 people. This is an increase of 2.46% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Kelso.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
200812,188+2.46%+1.56% since 2007
200712,001+0.89%+0.34% since 2006
200611,960+0.55%+2.16% since 2005
200511,707-1.58% 
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200011,895The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Clatskanie (OR)   W15 mi [24.14 km]1,6377.13% increase
 Columbia City (OR)   S16 mi [25.75 km]1,96425.02% increase
 Prescott (OR)   S5 mi [8.05 km]731.39% increase
 Saint Helens (OR)   S18 mi [28.97 km]12,51024.86% increase
 Castle Rock   N10 mi [16.09 km]2,1200.47% decrease
 Kalama   S8 mi [12.87 km]2,24926.14% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Kelso.

Website for Kelso

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Kelso or Cowlitz County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.kelso.gov/
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For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Kelso? Please visit the Map Page for Kelso.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Kelso - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Kelso, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Kelso.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Kelso and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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